3 Romanticism Reaction to Revolutionary PeriodReaction to the Industrial RevolutionImagination over ReasonIntuition over FactFocus on Emotions

4 Dark / Gothic RomanticsRomanticismTranscendentalistsLove of natureIdealization of rural lifeLove of beauty and natureSympathy and sentimentalityDark / Gothic RomanticsNature is alien or even frighteningLoss of place in the urban, modern worldEnthusiasm for the wild or grotesque in natureEmotional psychology

8 Dark / Gothic Romantic Literaturedeep awareness of the human capacity for evilprobing of the mind, conscience, and heart

9 The Dark / Gothic RomanticsThree giants from this period are Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe. Hawthorne and Poe are what have been called “brooding” romantics or “anti-transcendentalists” while Irving’s works are interspersed with dark humor.

10 Father of American LiteratureWashington IrvingFather of American Literature“The Devil and Tom Walker” “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” “Rip Van Winkle”1789 – 1851

12 Edgar Allan Poe Created the modern short story & the detective story“Masque of the Red Death”“The Fall of the House of Usher”“The Raven”“The Cask of Amontillado”“The Tell-Tale Heart”“The Murders in the Rue Morgue”